Re: Failsafe & Active Directory

William wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply Holger, in the end I managed to find some
> documentation on the Oracle website and it would appear that your response
> was correct with this document.
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> From Oracle document:
> "In the Oracle Services for MSCS Account/Password dialog box, enter the
> domain, user name, and password of a user account that has Administrator
> privileges. This is the account that Oracle Services for MSCS will be using
> to access this cluster. Oracle Services for MSCS runs as a Windows service
> (called OracleMSCSServices) under a user account that must be a domain user
> account (not the system account) that has Administrator privileges on all
> nodes of this cluster. The account must be the same on all nodes of this
> cluster, or you will receive an error message when you attempt to connect to
> a cluster using Oracle Fail Safe Manager. You enter the information in the
> form Domain\Username, as shown in Figure 2-9, or if you are using Windows
> 2000, you can enter a user principal name in the form Username_at_DnsDomainName
> in the Domain\Username box. "
> So it would appear there is no reliance on Active Directory although a
> Domain User account is required. The acccount should have local
> administrator access on all nodes, this will in turn allow the
> Oracleservices for MSCS the right to run as a service.
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> Thanks,
>
> William
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>

As a small addition: Make sure that the domain user is listed explicitely in the local administrators group on the nodes in the cluster - I had some nasty effects when on one node the domain user was explicitely listed, on an other node implicitely through a domain group.

Cheers,
Holger Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 05:50:27 CDT